Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
 
Success in the academic field depends on your number of qualifications.
 
 
A.You are successful in the academic field, so you have more qualifications.
B.Your number of qualifications is a result of your success in the academic field.
C.The more success you are in the academic field, the more qualifications you have.
D. The more qualifications you have, the more successful you are in the academic field.

Exercise 5: Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Flats which are both comfortable and reasonably priced are few and far between in the current context of economic crisis.
A.uncommon  
B.unusual                
C.non-standard    
D.non-existent

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
I last heard this song 10 years ago.
A.It has been 10 years when I have heard this song.   
B.It was 10 years since I last heard this song.
C.It is 10 years since I last heard this song.    
D.It is 10 years when I have heard this song.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ is imperative in your new job. The director disapproves of being late.
A.Being on time
B.Having time
C.Taking time
D.Keeping time

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The forecast has revealed that the world’s reserves of fossil fuel will have……..by 2015.
A.used over
B.used off
C.run out
D.run out of

The worst thing is to get stuck in traffic jam when you are ________ hurry .
A._________
B.in a
C.go
D.with

Why is this passage titled "Married in a Kimono, Happy in Switzerland”?
A.Clothing is important in both Japan and Switzerland.
B.Mayumi respects Japanese traditions, but she likes living in Switzerland.
C.Swiss and Japanese traditions are growing closer.
D.Mayumi was a very stylish bride at her Swiss wedding.

 Once you know______ a computer, you will be able to work as a secretary.
A.to use
B.the use of
C.use
D.how to use

(50)  
A.signs           
B.signals
C.sight            
D.signatures

Part 12: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Biological diversity has become widely recognized as a critical conservation issue only in the past two decades. The rapid destruction of the tropical rain forests, which are the ecosystems with the highest known species diversity on Earth, has awakened people to the importance and fragility of biological diversity. The high rate of species extinctions in these environments is jolting, but it is important to recognize the significance of biological diversity in all ecosystems. As the human population continues to expand, it will negatively affect one after another of Earth’s ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems and in fringe marine ecosystems (such as wetlands), the most common problem is habitat destruction. In most situations, the result is irreversible. Now humans are beginning to destroy marine ecosystems through other types of activities, such as disposal and runoff of poisonous waste; in less than two centuries, by significantly reducing the variety of species on Earth, they have irrevocably redirected the course of evolution.
Certainly, there have been periods in Earth’s history when mass extinctions have occurred. The extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by some physical event, either climatic or cosmic. There have also been less dramatic extinctions, as when natural competition between species reached an extreme conclusion. Only 0.01 percent of the species that have lived on Earth have survived to the present, and it was largely chance that determined which species survived and which died out.
However, nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and demolishing the environment. In fact, there is wide agreement that it is the rate of change humans are inflicting, even more than the changes themselves, that will lead to biological devastation. Life on Earth has continually been in flux as slow physical and chemical changes have occurred on Earth, but life needs time to adapt-time for migration and genetic adaptation within existing species and time for the proliferation of new genetic material and new species that may be able to survive in new environments.
The author mentions the extinction of the dinosaurs in the 2nd paragraph to emphasize that                      .  
A.the cause of the dinosaurs’ extinction is unknown
B.actions by humans could not stop the irreversible process of a species’ extinction
C.not all mass extinctions have been caused by human activity
D.Earth’s climate has changed significantly since the dinosaurs’extinction